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...fire extinguisher at a police Land Rover trapped against a wall. Inside the van, a police officer can be seen aiming a pistol at the demonstrator. One, possibly two shots were fired; Carlo Giuliani, 23, the son of a labor union official from Rome, fell, bleeding through his ski mask from a wound to the head. The van ran him over as it backed away, and Giuliani died...
...Senate took the opposite approach. The test scores of each subgroup of students (blacks, latinos, low-income kids) are required to improve just 1% per year-hardly an attempt to leave no child behind. And states are allowed to average the performances of the subgroups-and therefore mask weak minority test scores beneath the high scores of white or wealthy students. This lowering of the bar was partly due to pressure from the 22 Republican governors up for reelection next year who don't want the federal government labeling their schools as failures...
...generations. I saw Bello's uncle Pio Nock in the Ringling show when I was 22, and I applied immediately to the Ringling Bros. Clown College. Bello's thoroughly American accent--he speaks many languages, but all of them like a guy from Florida, which he is--doesn't mask his European take on the art of circus. That's not a better point of view than the American, but it is different...
...sinister and manipulative Machiavellian, if he were guilty of something far worse than adultery, might behave exactly as Condit has. That is, he might use an apparent ineptness at public relations, combined with grudging revelation of the affair with an intern (tacky, but comparatively innocent, under the circumstances) to mask an infinitely uglier offense. This would be misdirection of the kind Dwight Eisenhower practiced almost half a century ago, when he addressed his press conferences in fuddled syntax that allowed reporters and other great intellectuals to go away joking about what an idiot Eisenhower was. Ike wanted them to think...
...write in response to an issue of the “Comeuppance” comic strip (May 23). The strip shows a masked man sitting at a theater balcony while another man, who is apparently Abraham Lincoln, sneaks up behind him and assassinates him. When the mask is pulled off, it is revealed to be Adolf Hitler, and Lincoln is portrayed as saying: “Nobel Peace Prize...